After Taotao hid in the bedroom, he leaned on the window like a frightened bird, secretly watching every move in the living room.

When he saw his father enter the bedroom and his mother standing in the living room, he was relieved.

He hid in his bedroom, like a bird in need of protection.

Dongmei stood in place for a while, then walked to Taotao's bedroom, knocked on the door, and said, "Taotao, you open the door quickly." “

Tao Tao slowly opened the door and said, "Mom......"

After Dongmei walked in the door, she said, "If you want to go out and rent a house, then you can go out and rent a room to live, and your father and I won't stop you." “

Hearing that her mother, who had been disagreeing with going out to rent a house just now, suddenly agreed to go out to live by herself, Taotao said happily: "That's great, but ......"

Tao Tao wanted to speak and stopped.

Dongmei said: "Since you go out to live, then you must pay attention to safety." “

Tao Tao said: "You can rest assured, I am eighteen years old, I am no longer a child, I will definitely pay attention to safety." “

Dongmei said: "Then you are renting a house outside, how long are you going to come back?" “

Tao Tao said, "Like all students, I go home once a week. “

Dongmei asked with concern: "Then what should you do when you eat?"

Tao Tao said, "I'm eating outside." “

Dongmei nodded and said, "Okay." “

Tao Tao said: "Then I will come back at noon tomorrow, and I will move out." “

Dongmei said: "It can be done." “

Tao Tao said: "However, I move out and it costs ...... money every month."

Dongmei said: "You eat ten yuan a day, and I will give you three hundred yuan a month, which is enough." “

Tao Tao said: "I am going to buy a stove for Liu Loufang's house, and then buy some coal. “

Dongmei said, "Then how much do you want?"

Tao Tao said: "You gave me 500 yuan in the first month, and I will pay you back if you have more." “

Dongmei nodded and said, "I'll give it to you tomorrow morning." “

Hearing that his mother agreed to his request, Taotao was overjoyed.

After talking to Taotao, Dongmei returned to the bedroom.

She saw that Wei Guo actually opened a bottle of liquor and drank it.

Dongmei knows that Wei Guo will not smoke or drink all his life.

He suddenly picked up the wine and drank it, which means that there must be something on his mind.

Dongmei snatched the wine bottle in Wei Guo's hand and said, "What kind of wine do you drink at night?"

Wei Guo felt uncomfortable and said: "I hate my son for not being successful." “

Dongmei said: "Don't hate, since it has become like that, there is no way to hate, you just let it develop, whether it is good or bad, he can grasp it himself." “

After finishing speaking, Dongmei got into the bed.

That day, both Dongmei and Wei Guo didn't sleep all night.

At noon the next day, Tao Tao took the 500 yuan given to him by his mother and happily moved into the rental house where Liu Lou's house was located.

Liu Loufang's rental house is very small, and Tao Tao bought a second-hand big bed back, enough for two people to be crowded together.

At noon, the sun was very warm, and Taotao felt that the rental house was not bad.

But at night, Taotao immediately felt the kind of skin frost.

After evening self-study, back to the house, Taotao felt like entering an ice cellar.

As usual, Tao Tao has to eat supper after evening self-study.

He said to Liu Loufang: "Loufang, let's go have supper." “

After Liu Loufang entered the house, he specially added another piece of clothing, and he said, "I'm not hungry, you can go eat." “

Hearing that Liu Loufang didn't go to supper, Taotao was embarrassed to go to supper alone, so he sat down.

The table in Liu's room is not big, just enough to seat two people.

Liu Loufang took out a military coat, handed it to Tao Tao and said, "You put this on, otherwise the more you study, the colder it will be." “

Tao Tao said disapprerovingly: "It's okay, I'm wearing a thick cotton jacket and cotton shoes." “

Usually, when Tao Tao comes home, due to the heat of the heating at home, the first thing he does is to take off his coat, then change into a thin sweater, and travel lightly.

But in Liu Lou's house, Tao Tao didn't dare to take off any clothes at all.

He was wearing thick clothes, and he was very uncomfortable sitting there studying.

Soon, an hour passed.

Tao Tao already felt frozen and couldn't sit still.

Not only was his body cold, but his feet were also very cold.

Liu Loufang, who was sitting next to him, saw Taotao shivering when he was frozen, and he said, "Taotao, are you frozen and can't stand it?"

In order to show his tenacity, Tao Tao said: "It's okay, even if it's a little cold, as long as you can study, it doesn't matter." “

Hearing this, Liu Loufang took out the military coat and draped it on Tao Tao's body, and then poured him another cup of hot water and said: "Tao Tao, you put on the military coat, and then drink this cup of hot water in a small sip, you will feel better." “

At this time, Tao Tao really experienced the feeling of being cold.

He was already frozen and could not speak well, and he said, "The building ...... Thank you...... You...... Yes. “

Liu Loufang wanted to laugh when he saw Taotao's embarrassed appearance, but he was embarrassed to laugh.

He said, "Taotao, living with me feels far worse than your heated house." “

Tao Tao said stiffly: "Although there is heating at home, but all day under the nose of my parents, I feel always supervised, restrained, not beautiful at all, I still like to be here with you, I would rather be frozen, but the mood is good, comfortable." “

As he spoke, Tao Tao began to drink hot water.

As Tao Tao drank the cup of hot water one by one, he felt much more comfortable, and his body slowly warmed up.

However, when his body was warm, Taotao felt hungry again.

He touched his rumbling belly and said, "Loufang, is there still a food seller outside?"

Liu Loufang looked at his watch, it was already past eleven o'clock, he said: "In the winter, the weather is cold, and the food sellers have already closed." "Tao

Tao thought that when he was at home, before he was hungry, his mother would come up with a bowl of steaming noodles.

Tao Tao swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "Since the restaurants are closed, forget it." “

Liu Loufang, who was sitting next to him, listened to Tao Tao's stomach rumbling, and he said, "Tao Tao, if you are hungry, I have something to eat here, if not, you can take it and eat it first." “

Hearing that Liu Loufang had something to eat, Tao Tao immediately thought of all kinds of delicious snacks, and he said, "That's great, give me some." “

I saw that Liu Loufang took out a few frozen steamed buns like iron lumps from the drawer and said: "Although it is a little hard, it tastes good if you soak it in boiling water." “

As he spoke, Liu Loufang took out another bag of mustard.

Tao Tao took the cold steamed bun, looked at the mustard containing ice ballast, and said, "Is there anything else to eat?"

Liu Loufang shook his head and said, "No more." “

Although Tao Tao didn't want to nibble on hard steamed buns, hunger forced him to take boiling water and soak them up and eat them on ice.

In this way, Tao Tao took chopsticks, sandwiched the steamed buns soaked in boiling water, and ate the mustard full of ice ballast, frowning.

Although it tastes the same as chewing wax, in order to fill his stomach, Taotao also endures it.

After eating, drowsiness hit, Taotao asked Liu Loufang, "What time do you usually go to bed?"

Liu Loufang said: "I usually go to bed at eleven o'clock, and today you are here, I will accompany you to study for a while." “

Tao Tao yawned a lot and said, "Okay, I don't want to study anymore, so let's go to sleep now." “

Liu Loufang nodded and said, "Then let's sleep." “

After finishing speaking, Liu Loufang put on his clothes and got into the bed.

Tao Tao looked at Liu Loufang's strange behavior and said, "Loufang, don't you wash before going to bed?"

Liu Loufang shook his head and said: "At night, all the water pipes in the entire rental house are frozen, and there is no water, so it can't be washed." “

Hearing that there was no condition to wash his face and brush his teeth, Taotao felt very broken.

However, what made him even more desperate is still to come.

The conditions of Liu Loufang's house are difficult, even far beyond his imagination.